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	<description>Research and resources in the history of music and technology</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Goethezeitportal: German culture in the age of Goethe</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-goethezeitportal-german-culture-in-the-age-of-goethe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s another useful link: the Goethezeitportal, a excellent umbrella site linking to all kinds of online resources for the study of German art, literature and music in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The “Weblinks” page is extensive, and they also provide a large number of articles for download as PDF files directly on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the piano may be hazardous to your health?</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/playing-the-piano-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Women and pianos]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Czerny]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fortepiano]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Hummel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someday I’d like to do a project on women and piano-playing around the turn of the 19th century. Women were perhaps the primary consumers of pianos for the home in this period, especially as the 19th century progressed. And I’ve noticed in my reading of late 18th-century musical journals that it was not at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wooden Artifacts Group website</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/wooden-artifacts-group-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[furniture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation provides some useful resources here. You can browse their archive of postprints; also, the Digital Bookshelf is an excellent set of links to online books on cabinetmaking and related topics, mostly 18th- and 19-century. There are also links to wood image databases and other miscellaneous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16th-century book of the arts</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/16th-century-book-of-the-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the collection of German manuscripts at the Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (a project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) I found Wolfgang Seydel&#8217;s Kunstbuch oder von manigerlai Handwerchskünsten (loosely translated, Book of Arts, or Of Various Handcrafts) (1550-1560). I can’t read much of the handwriting, only a few words here and there (“glue,” “silver”), but for those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arts and Secrets from 1771</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/arts-and-secrets-from-1771/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Cologne has a web site that links to an enormous number of digital resources, in particular for German history. I find the site a little difficult to navigate, and it looks like the main page may not have been updated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schiedmayer fortepiano damage report</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/schiedmayer-piano-all-broken-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[fortepiano]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered the Waller Manuscripts Collection at the University of Uppsala Library. What a knockout! It is a beautifully catalogued digital archive of manuscripts from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, mainly related to the sciences, all donated to the Uppsala Library in 1955 by the famous collector Erik Waller.
You can view high-resolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book of illustrious mechanics</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/book-of-illustrious-mechanics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing Google Book Search the other day, I came across The Book of Illustrious Mechanics by Edoard Foucaud, translated from the French by John Frost (1847). It&#8217;s available in full view and to be downloaded as a PDF.
Unfortunately, the PDF file is missing a number of pages at the beginning, including the latter part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early keyboard symposium in Edinburgh</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/early-keyboard-symposium-in-edinburgh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Luckily there is still (plenty of) time to submit a proposal for a paper or presentation to the symposium on early stringed keyboard instruments that will be held by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments at St. Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh on October 24-26. From the website:
Papers should be based on original research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding used books</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/finding-used-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Operating on the principle that the more you give, the more you get in return, I&#8217;m going to divulge  my secret research weapon a great tip:
AddALL Book Search and Price Comparison
The AddALL site aggregates listings from amazon, abebooks, choosebooks, and many other sellers. You can search for new or used books, and easily compare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About this blog</title>
		<link>http://halfpast.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My plan is to use this blog for two things:

to write about my research on music history and the history of technology during the Early Modern period,
and to present digital resources for historians of these topics and this period.

My research focuses in particular on keyboard instrument building during the latter half of the 18th century, [...]]]></description>
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